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История AMD (Eng.) - (реферат)

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    Advanced Micro Devices
    INTRODUCTION

Now-a-days it’s hard to imagine any field of human activity where the help of computers isn’t in demand. They have become what the people can’t do without everywhere –in work, getting education, entertainment. Their expanding and general availability are the result of the huge step that the technical progress in the PC processors industry has made for the last 10 years. The productivity of processors is much higher than it was even 5 years ago, and the cost–lower. The other motive is the increasing competition among the companies producing processors.

The leading position at the market of processors was taken by Intel and there were no companies that could seriously compete with Intel. But the last 3 years it has to share the market with another processors producer called AMD Advanced Micro Devices - the company whose success is the point to be told about below.

    HISTORY OF AMD

As the AMD story has unfolded, its product lines have expanded, its culture has evolved, and the individual successes of its people have grown. Here's a brief summary of the three decades that have passed - and a very favorable indication of the years that lie ahead.

Among the things that unite AMD employees around the globe is a history highlighted by remarkable achievement. Since 1969, AMD has grown from afledgling start-up, headquartered in the living room of one of its founders, to a global corporation with annual revenues of $2. 4 billion. The events that shaped AMD's growth, the strengths that will drive its future success, and a timeline enco